Vietnam, nơi con tàu "thần chết" đang neo đậu và truyền tải ung thư dịch bệnh

Xin phép Mod cho đăng tải bài này để nhơ các bác trong ngành môi trường hải quan biển cảng cho biết thông tin về con tàu trước mang tên Probo Koala, và nay đổi thành Gulf Jash hiên đang đỗ ở cảng biển Việt nam theo thông tin tôi tìm được trên trang web này:

http://www.minesandcommunities.org//article.php?a=10938&highlight=Vietnam

Năm 2006, công ty Trafigura dùng con tàu Probo Koala đổ chui 528 tấn chất thải độc hại ở bờ biển Abidjan, thành phố lớn nhất của Bờ Biển Ngà, làm chết 16 người dân theo thông tin của các quan chức Bờ Biển Ngà.

Công ty Global Marketing Systems (GMS), một công ty Mỹ chuyên mua bán tàu thuyền để cắt làm sắt vụn, đã cho biết vừa mua con thuyền này tuần trước (khoảng 10-17 tháng 5 năm 2011, nhưng từ chối không cho biết điểm đến cuối cùng của con tàu menh danh "thần chết" này.

Tôi yêu thiên nhiên và thích biển, rất ghét những kẻ vụ lợi cá nhân làm những việc vô lương tâm vô đạo đức này.

Tôi sợ rằng mấy cty đang thương luợng và bán cho mấy nhà máy luyện thép cần sắt vụn tại miền Trung hay miền Bắc.

Nếu các bác có ai quen biết làm trong nghề vận tải biển, hoa tiêu, cảng vận, môi trường thì xin hỏi giúp để biết thêm thông tin về con tàu dịch bệnh này.

Cám ơn và mong hồi âm.

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Infamous Probo Koala Sent for Dismantling

http://www.minesandcommunities.org//article.php?a=10938&highlight=Vietnam

NGOs call on Bangladesh: Stop Death Ship Before it Kills Again
FIDH Press release
24 May 2011
Brussels - The Probo Koala, now re-named the Gulf Jash, a ship which caused an environmental and human rights disaster in the Ivory Coast in August 2006, has been sold for scrapping on the infamous ship breaking beaches of Chittagong in Bangladesh.

Environmental, human rights and labour rights organisations represented by the NGO Shipbreaking Platform fear that the Probo Koala will be allowed to perpetuate its deadly legacy by being broken down in unsafe and environmentally damaging conditions. The NGOs call on the government of Bangladesh to refuse the import of the death ship and say no to illegal toxic waste trade. It is expected that the Probo Koala contains many tonnes of hazardous asbestos, PCBs, toxic paints, fuel and chemical residues. Currently the ship is located in Vietnam.
In 2006, the transnational company Trafigura used the Probo Koala to illegally dump 528 tonnes of toxic waste in Abidjan, the largest city of the Ivory Coast, causing the death of 16 people according to the Ivorian authorities. Global Marketing Systems (GMS), a US company specialised in the brokering of vessels for demolition, confirmed it had bought the ship last week, but had so far not disclosed its final destination.
However its website listed that one of the advantages of utilising Bangladesh as a destination for end-of-life vessels is the lack of requirements for testing for gas residues within the ship. These gases might ignite and explode when a shipbreaking worker uses a cutting torch.
"The Probo Koala already is a symbol of an unaccountable and irresponsible shipping industry," said Bangladeshi lawyer and director of Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA), Rizwana Hasan. "We demand that this ship and all others like her, carrying toxic substances and intent on exploiting yet again the population and environment in the developing world, be barred from entry into Bangladesh."
Shipbreaking as is done on the beaches of South Asia is one of the world's most dangerous and polluting enterprises. The NGO Shipbreaking Platform has, through its member organisation BELA, successfully petitioned in the Bangladeshi courts to stop the import of toxic ships for breaking, and safer methods of breaking ships already exist today. However, due to intense political and economic pressure from the shipbreaking and shipping industry, the court ruling has temporarily been lifted pending further decisions.
Unless and until the High Court decision is allowed to stand, toxic ships will continue to pile up on the beaches of Bangladesh where they are broken apart by hand exposing workers to explosions and occupational disease, while contaminating the coastal environment.
"A ship that was used to generate, and then dump toxic waste in a developing country is now aiming to do the same all in the name of ship recycling" said Ingvild Jenssen, Director of the Platform."While victims of the dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast are still awaiting effective justice and fair reparation for their harm, we must stop this ship before it causes more casualties.
If the Bangladeshi authorities do not stop the vessel from entering its territorial waters, the ship will be allowed to perpetuate its deadly legacy by being broken down in unsafe and environmentally damaging conditions. Toxic ships should be dismantled in green recycling facilities where workers and the environment are protected from exposure to toxic waste.
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